RAMALLAH - CIA Director George Tenet has won Palestinian acceptance on for a "work plan" already approved by Israel to end eight months of bloodshed.
"We have accepted the American document. Implementation will begin tomorrow," Palestinian Information Minister Yasser Abed Rabbo told reporters today after the US spy chief held late-night talks on Tuesday with President Yasser Arafat in the West Bank.
"There will be a trilateral security meeting as well as a bilateral political meeting with the Americans."
Israel had said earlier that it accepted the American's proposals for ending violence that began in September.
"The United States is pleased that a work plan has been accepted by both sides," a US official said in Washington.
"Its purpose is to resume security cooperation, end the violence and restore the situation on the ground that existed before (violence)."
Tenet, on the sixth day of a Middle East peace mission, met Arafat in the West Bank city of Ramallah.
Arafat, Abed Rabbo said, provided the American with a letter detailing his objections to one element of Tenet's plan - a buffer zone between Israeli and Palestinian forces.
Abed Rabbo said Tenet would now return to the United States, leaving other US officials to put the plan into motion.
While Arafat and Tenet met, suspected Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a car near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim in the West Bank, killing a Greek monk, the Israeli army said. The car had Israeli license plates.
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